Morning journal and courier., 1887-12-21
LAST NreHT

Of the G. A. R. Faif-A Big crowd
 Arrangements For Drawing the
 PriEes-The House Prizes-The Even.
 ing DrawIngs-Other Information
 About the Fair.
 Yesterday was pr 3tically the last day of the G. A. R. fair. Tonight the prizes will be drawn and other articles disposed of. Last evening the same dense mass of people kept moving slowly around the big hall, stopping now and then at one of the booths and then moving on again to the strains of the Second regiment band. To say that the fair has been success would be to put it mildly, as it has been the largest fair ever held in this city. Caterer Bradley in his rooms in the gallery was having @ busy time feeding the hungry with substantial food in the drill rooms and supplying others with ice cream
 and cake in the gallery. About $500 has
 been taken in his department during the fair.
 He has been assisted in his work by Mrs.
 Gessner, Miss Hattie Munsen, Mrs. Colonel
 White, Miss Julia Buckingham, Miss Clapp,
 Misses Eva and Ida Adams, Mrs. L. Parmalee,
 Miss Crow, Mrs. Tisdale, Mrs. Frank Bald
 win, Mrs. Whittlesey, Miss Eva Gessner, Mrs.
 Julia King, Mrs. Crane, Mrs. Andrews, Miss
 Lucy Northrop, Miss Maud Tisdale, Miss
 Mamie Baldwin and others.
 During the evening a large and admiring
 crowd witnessed Mir. A. w. B. Lincoln of
 Hartford draw his lightning sketches,'' rep
 resenting war scenes and memories. The
 crowd began to thin out about ten o'clock,
 and in an hour only the officers of the fair
 remained to count up and settle matters for the final closing to-day. During the thinning out of the crowd, however, Dr.W. H. Thomp- son had taken the opportunity ln neat little speech, of presenting Mrs. $. A. York of the | |. D-ryaI ter pitcher in the name of the lady assistants
 at the booth, who were: Mrs. Lynde Harri-
 son, Mrs. Dr. w. H. Thompson, Mrs. F. B. Mallory, Mrs. Edwin Rowe, Mrs. Geo. Wykes, jr., Mrs. Nellie Chapman, Mrs. G. H. Bar
 mum. The affair was very agreeable sur
 prise to Mrs. York. This afternoon at three o'clock the committee in charge of the prize
 drawing, consisting of MT. J. B. Darlington, Gen. E. E. Bradley and Mir. Ezekiel G. Stod- dard, will commence with the drawing for
 the eighteen prizes on the house ticket, which are as follows:
 1-Clock.
 2-Canary bird and cage. 3-One thousand bricks
 4-Crockery tea set
 5-Half- dozen shirts.
 S-EmbFoidered fire screen.
 S-Siiver watch.
 0-Pistol
 10-Half cord of wood.
 11-MuSical clock.
 12-Pair of ottomanS.
 1S-Two dozen sssorS.
 14-Box Yale cigars and faucy table. 15-Pair horse blankets.
 16-Pair of elk's antlers. 17-Silver
 I8-Breakfast, dinner and tea set. The coupons calling for these prizes will be mixed up in large tin wheel, ,and after being we'll shaken up Miss Annie Chapin, the blind musician, will draw out ticket, the number of which will draw the first prize, and so on until all eighteen prizes are drawn. Then at 6 o'clock the drawing for the 150 prizes on the admission ticket coupons, will begin and will be done in the same manner by Miss Chapin as for the eighteen prizes. This it is expected ] will take about two and half hours time. Some dissatisfaction has been felt over the way the coupons on these tickets get into the tin wheel, for which there appears to be little ground. When the tickets were sold, attached to the main stub of the ticket was 8 coupon containing the same number as the stub, and when ticket was sold the seller tore off this coupon and turned it over, to- gether with the ticket money, to Fred H. Waldron. Every ticket and coupon had to be handed in or some good reason given why it should not be- and it is safe to say that nearly all the coupons have been handed in as the big tin wheel contained S,16S of them about o'clock last evening. After this drawing is finished the special chance articles in each booth will be drawn, each booth looking after the drawing, and when this is completed all the remaining arti- cles will be sold at auction, commencing at the right hand side of the armory The vot- ing will close at 10 o'clock this evening, and the votes counted and winners announced. Since the opening of the fair the different
 booths up to last evening had taken in the
 following amounts of money and coupons: